The Butte Underground Tour is a must see
I read about the underground world of Butte in Montana's "Get Lost" app and I was not disappointed when I had a chance to take the tour in person. The guide is very good provides a great background on the city. There is a whole other level of Butte just below the sidewalk (the tour is similar to the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan).The tour ...
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Tour | Mining Technologies | Story of Butte
Small-scale mining in Butte began in the mid-1860s, underground mining in Butte began in earnest in the mid-1870s, and by 1887, Butte had risen to the lead position in the world's …
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MOUNTAIN OUTLAW MAGAZINE – BUTTE: UNDERGROUND …
Butte's red-light district, "Venus Alley," employed up to 1,000 ladies of the evening. BUTTE-SILVER BOW PUBLIC ARCHIVES The Italian marble–wainscoted building at 24-26 North Main Street, built in 1912, rented 45 rooms to local tradesmen – but may have been best enjoyed for its secret watering hole, which entertained flappers dancing to live jazz bands during the …
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Encyclopedia of Forlorn Places | Butte Montana …
The best ore from the underground mines had been exhausted by the 1940s. Mining companies can extract copper and other metals from lower quality ore with leaching and other techniques. ... The town of Anaconda, which is about 25 …
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Montana's Butte Hill houses miles of underground tunnels, …
By 1910, Amalgamated bought all the remaining interests in Butte and consolidated it into a single company which renamed itself to Anaconda Copper Co. in 1915. "At times in the early days, Butte was supplying 60% of the world's copper. And a lot of times it was supplying 80% of America's copper," Keane says.
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Butte Montana Mining History
What remains is Butte, America, a unique and storied city with a core group of people who still retain much of the camaraderie of the unforgiving days of underground hardrock mining, when a man's partner was his lifeline.
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Mine Ventilation | Story of Butte
In 1910, after most of the big mines on the Butte Hill were consolidated under the ownership and operation of Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM), the company converted several mines from being shafts hoisting ore to serving as ventilation shafts by installing giant fans to draw large volumes of air from the underground workings, which were ...
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More Than a Mining Town: Drinking the History of Butte, …
Once called the richest hill on earth, $100 billion came out of the hills of Butte during its mining era, most of it copper ore. Likewise, thousands migrated to the western frontier to earn their fortunes. Butte, in many ways, fueled the industrial revolution (copper was used to make electric wiring).
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Powell Butte, OR Weather Conditions | Weather Underground
Powell Butte Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Powell Butte area.
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Butte Falls, OR Weather Conditions | Weather Underground
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Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar …
Subsequently, mining activity shifted to underground mining beneath town to develop the Cu veins that compose one of the richest ore deposits ever exploited (Miller, 1973, Tooker, 1990) although, for the first 20 years after (1900–1920), Ag production across the district continued to increase along with that of Cu (Gammons et al., 2016).
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Montana Mines
Eventually all underground mining stopped and production came from the gigantic Berkeley Pit. The ultra-modern Anaconda Concentrator was constructed adjacent to the pit to process the ore. In 1982, Anaconda closed its Butte and …
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Open-Pit Mining and Block-Caving | Story of Butte
Butte's sustained boom began in the 1870s, when miners found ways to exploit rich veins of ore from underground workings. That boom lasted seven decades, until the 1940s, when depletion of the rich veins and competition from copper mines elsewhere threatened to make mining in Butte unprofitable. Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) responded by implementing newer …
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An Overview of the Mining History and Geology of …
In 1955, mineral extraction in Butte began a transition from underground to open pit mining of a lower-grade, porphyry Cu-style deposit in the center of the district. Underground mining continued until 1976; ... The geology of the Butte ore bodies was described in detail by early workers, such as Reno Sales and Charles Meyer (Sales 1914; Meyer ...
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Anselmo Mine
The Anselmo mineyard is the most intact of any in Butte, and includes the main hoist engine room, an auxiliary hoist building (with a lamp room in the lower level), carpenter shop, timekeeper's offices, hose house, the dry (miners' locker room), and a warehouse, in addition to the headframe with its tipple and two idler towers. The compressed air tank also …
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OneMine | Butte Paper
The group of four papers on ore dreseing read at the Butte meeting, all of them dealing with the recent developments at the Great Falls and Washoe plants of the Anaconda Company, form …
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A Survey of the Geochemistry of Flooded Mine Shaft …
Key words: acid mine drainage; Butte; geochemistry; ground water; underground mines Introduction Although more famous for its pit lake, the Butte mining district (also known as the Summit Valley district) is also host to one of the most extensive flooded underground mine complexes in the world. An estimated 16,000 km of horizontal drifts connects
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Mine Mules
Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives. Every person, through their lives, shapes local and American history. ... Before electricity was widely used in underground mining, mules were used to transport loads of ore. By 1910, it is estimated at least 1,000 mules and horses were working underground. By 1918, electricity began to phase out the use of ...
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New map plots Butte underground
The 26-inch by 40-inch "Butte, Montana, Richest Hill on Earth: 100 Years of Underground Mining" map is available in the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology's publications office in Room 200 of ...
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Mine Surveying, Mine Maps, and Mine Models | Story of Butte
The exposed, upper-most part of a vein is called the apex. Once it became apparent that veins of ore extended deep into the Earth, mining companies began to dig shafts, hoping that the shafts would strike ore. As those shafts proved successful, the mining companies drove their shafts deeper, typically in increments of 100 feet. Because Butte's veins of ore do not sit vertically in …
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Tours | Story of Butte
Building Stone Sources- A walking tour of examples along the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Trail and west Butte. 9 Locations. Everyone walking around Butte will notice the use of stone for building foundations, retaining walls, …
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Butte Montana
master's note: Butte, Montana is the most historically significant mining town in North America. My first visit to Butte in the early 2000s is the event that spurred the creation of Western Mining History. Butte is a remarkable place to visit today, and anyone with an interest in mining or the history of the West should consider vi…See more on westernmininghistory
Montana Mines
For most of its history, mining was confined to the high-grade underground veins of ore which crisscrossed Butte Hill. What started as the rough-and-tumble miners' camp of Butte City grew …
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Geology of the Berkeley Pit | Butte Montana …
Butte Montana geology directly impacts the geology of the Berkeley Pit because of the land's volcanic roots. Learn more here. ... Sulfuric acid is the material that makes the Berkeley Pit and underground waters acidic. In contrast to Butte, …
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Butte Falls, OR 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground
Butte Falls Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Butte Falls area.
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The Abandoned Nuclear Bunker Atop a Volcano
Kelly Butte is a long-extinct volcanic cinder cone outside Portland, Oregon that's presently used as a city park. But for a time, Kelly Butte was also the site of a two-story subterranean civil ...
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OneMine | Butte Paper
The group of four papers on ore dreseing read at the Butte meeting, all of them dealing with the recent developments at the Great Falls and Washoe plants of the Anaconda Company, form an extremely important contribution to the subject of ore dressing. It proves the efficacy of the new hindered-settling principles first brought out in a paper entitled Close Sizing Before …
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The Copper Wars of Butte and the Invention of Underground Geological
Between 1898 and 1906 a battle for control of the rich copper bearing ore veins of Butte, Montana was fought between the Anaconda Company and the much smaller Copper Trust of Frederick Augustus Heinze. Battles of the war were fought through numerous court cases and underground between the miners of the two companies. The war ended when Anaconda …
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Butte Paper
This paper deals only with the concentrating or ore-dressing problem, and gives some thoughts which point towards greater profit. In a paper on The Development of Hindered-Settling …
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Orphan Mine
In 1965, the became the site of the World Museum of Mining. Today museum visitors can tour the underground tunnels of the Orphan , which still hold equipment from the mine's working days, as well as the hoist house and mine …
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Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open File Report …
The Flooding of Butte's Underground Mines and Berkeley Pit Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit Annual Water-Level Update, 2000 By Terence E. Duaime and John J. Metesh Prepared for The Montana Department of Environmental Quality Remediation Division and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region VIII September 2001 Contract No. 400022-TO-3 ii]
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